Davidson v. Denver Tramway Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1894
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently December 1939
1 federal appellate · 6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on McClain v. . Brooklyn City R.R. Co. · Dolan v. . Delaware and Hudson Canal Co. · Adolph v. Central Park, North & East River Railroad · Wood v. Detroit City Street Railway Co. · Meyer v. Lindell Railway Co.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is very difficult to imagine circumstances which would excuse the injured party for his neglect to use his ■eyes as well as his ears to guard against an accident occurring while he is crossing the track.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Tunison v. Weadock
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.